Reading the Book of Changes . . .Ezra Pound's Make It Newlingers in my mind

Chen-ou Liu, Canada

Ezra Pound (1885-1972), the originator of the slogan"Make It New,"who lived in Europe, greatly influenced the development of modern literature.

His In a Station of the Metro has been endlessly researched by scholars, literary critics, and poets alike…In his most widely-read book, The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, William Higginson rightly emphasizes that Ezra Pound's metro poem is the "first published hokku in English" and "very important to its author`s development" – an excerpt from my essay entitledThree Readings of Ezra Pound's "Metro Haiku"

The Yijing, also known as the Book of Changes, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts.